International

For more than 110 years, Rotary has connected 1.2 million neighbours, friends, leaders and problem solvers from more than 200 countries and geographical areas. 

Rotary’s people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health. Our work has impacted lives across the globe, in our community, and in our own, as we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end. 

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Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.

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We are project partners with Rotary International, a global community of 1.2 million neighbours, friends, leaders and problem-solvers. Their aim is to create positive, lasting change in communities at home and all over the world. 

By working together with Rotary, we are able to collaborate and combine resources to ensure that we can support more communities in desperate need of shelter after disaster.

Rotarians and Rotary groups across the world support us in a variety of ways, from raising funds and awareness to providing support on the ground during our response to a disaster. This enables us to work more effectively and reach more communities around the world. 

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ROMAC was founded in 1988 by Rotarians who identified that there was a lack of medical and surgical facilities and skills for children of the island nations in Oceania.

Today ROMAC in New Zealand and Australia enlists assistance from medical experts, hospitals, nurses, physiotherapists, pathology and radiology services, airlines, sponsors and other supporters. By providing surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand from developing countries in our Pacific region in the form of life giving and dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country, making a huge difference in their lives.

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Interplast sends teams of volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and allied health professionals to provide life-changing surgery and medical training in 17 countries across the Asia Pacific region.

By partnering with local organisations, including hospitals, universities and local NGOs, Interplast aims to ‘repair bodies and rebuild lives’ by providing surgical services to those who could not otherwise afford or access these, and by building the capacity of local medical systems through our training and mentoring programs.

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The Club was one of the initial supporters of the Bali Eye Clinic established in 1990 by John Fawcett and West Perth Rotary Club. The team travels to villages around Bali and other islands with a mobile eye clinic and volunteer specialists. Thousands of people have had their eyesight restored thanks to their work.